January 2021
The German translation of Arianna Dagnino’s The Afrikaner will be published by PalmArtPress (Berlin) in spring 2021. Italian and Arabic translations will follow in summer 2021. Read a short passage from [...]
Finalists for the 2020 John Glassco Prize
The Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC) is delighted to announce the three finalists for the 36th John Glassco Translation Prize. The selected candidates published their first book-length [...]
En Face with Oana Avasilichioaei’s Limbinal
Recently I was reading poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei’s 2015 book Limbinal. For the most part, the collection consists of work that isn’t translation. However, a little over halfway [...]
October 2020
Félicitations à Catherine Ego et Benoît Laflamme, finalistes du Prix de traduction 2020 de la Fondation Cole, remis par la Quebec Writers Federation ! Benoît est en nomination [...]
Call for Applications: Translation Residency at the Maison de la littérature
The Literary Translators Association of Canada (LTAC) and the Maison de la littérature have teamed up to offer a two-week translation residency in Quebec City. From February 7th [...]
Interview with LTAC member Stephen Slessor on researching technology use by literary translators
Student member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC) and PhD student at the University of Ottawa’s School of Translation and Interpretation, Stephen Slessor received a Joseph-Armand [...]
Alan Brown
Alan Brown was the fourth and final translator of Gabrielle Roy’s fiction. In addition to Children of My Heart, he translated her 1975 book Un Jardin ou bout du [...]
Paule Cloutier-Daveluy – 1919-2016
Paule Cloutier-Daveluy, mieux connue sous le nom de plume de Paule Daveluy, est une écrivaine et traductrice québécoise. Madame Daveluy a complété des études en création littéraire (1960) et [...]
Jean Simard – 1916-2005
C'est dans sa ville natale de Québec que Jean Simard a fait ses études classiques. Il a ensuite obtenu un diplôme de professeur de dessin de l'École des Beaux-Arts [...]
Gérard Boulad – 1923-2013
Alexandrin de naissance, Gérard Boulad se lance d'abord dans le journalisme - chroniques et critiques de spectacles et de livres -, puis devient libraire et alterne entre ces [...]